From 2044 to 2056, there was no greater entertainment machine than Samantha Sylvester's creation Hector Gamble. Publisher's Weeky memorably described his character as "if F. Scott Fitzgerald had been born a cage fighter and raised by James Bond and Lara Croft."
Drawing from the pulp classics of a century earlier, Sylverster's Gamble found himself falling from adventure to adventure in a ridiculous chain of events, endlessly lampooned by late night talk show hosts and syndicated cartoonists. Despite the absurdity of the plots, the books were immensely popular and fans grew to love Gamble for his ability to debate existential questions with his mastermind antagonist before knocking him out with a roundhouse kick and defusing the dirty bomb buried in the basement.
Scholarship on the Gamble series exploded in the late 2040s, and gained further momentum as the Gamble franchise spilled over from novels into comics, films, videogames, other collectibles. In addition to being an intimidating physical specimen trained in multiple martial arts, Gamble was an intellectual, a polyglot, an artist, an amateur mathematician, a feminist, and a Marxist theorist.
Drawing from the pulp classics of a century earlier, Sylverster's Gamble found himself falling from adventure to adventure in a ridiculous chain of events, endlessly lampooned by late night talk show hosts and syndicated cartoonists. Despite the absurdity of the plots, the books were immensely popular and fans grew to love Gamble for his ability to debate existential questions with his mastermind antagonist before knocking him out with a roundhouse kick and defusing the dirty bomb buried in the basement.
Scholarship on the Gamble series exploded in the late 2040s, and gained further momentum as the Gamble franchise spilled over from novels into comics, films, videogames, other collectibles. In addition to being an intimidating physical specimen trained in multiple martial arts, Gamble was an intellectual, a polyglot, an artist, an amateur mathematician, a feminist, and a Marxist theorist.